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Maryland State Police arrested Jacob Bircher, 24, of Westminster, shortly after 7 a.m. Friday in a church parking lot along Route 140 at Route 97 in Westminster. Troopers have charged Bircher with felony first-degree murder, and officials said more charges are pending.

Police were called around midnight Thursday to a shooting at the Harvest Inn Restaurant and Bar on Liberty Road, where troopers found the two victims lying in the parking lot.

"In all the years that I've been here, we've never had anything like this," Harvest Inn owner Tony Trombetta said.

Investigators said the victims -- identified as David Garrett, 36, of Sykesville, and Gary Hall, of Woodstock -- went outside just after midnight to smoke when Bircher began shooting at them for unknown reasons.

"We don't specifically know yet if words were exchanged or what, if there were any kinds of controversy. But apparently, the suspect began shooting, fired multiple times into this group of people," said Greg Shipley, with the Maryland State Police.

Garrett was pronounced dead at the scene. Police said Hale was taken to Shock Trauma for what are believed to be non-life-threatening injuries. He is recovering from his injuries.

"From what I gathered, they all said they heard several shots real fast in a row," Trombetta said. "There was no fighting outside. There was no argument between the two. He just shot the person."

Trombetta said Bircher started a bar tab so they still had his credit card and were able to provide police with that information.

Detectives said Bircher left the scene, but they were able to eventually get in touch with him via phone, where they convinced him to surrender.

Police said no one at the scene seemed to know Bircher before the shooting. They're not sure what connection he had to the victims.

Trombetta said witnesses described Bircher as "weird and unfamiliar" and that he stared at both victims intensely while they played pool.

"Nobody here at all knew him at all," Trombetta said. "Don’t' know where he came from, never seen him. Most of the people in our bar they come patronize us pretty much know everybody."

Detectives said the gun used in the shooting hasn’t been recovered.

"The fact is they don't have a clear motive identified right now as to why this occurred," Shipley said.